hald not starting[Solved]

[Tiago]

After a couple of days of python-updater and revdep-rebuild i find myself with a nasty problem to solve, apparentlly my hald is there but not there and won't restart or do anthing for that matter...
Here's what happens:
"#hald restart" returns one fo two things:

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 * Starting Hardware Abstraction Layer daemon ...                                                                                                     [ !! ]
 * ERROR: hald failed to start


OR

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* Starting Hardware Abstraction Layer daemon ...
 * start-stop-daemon: /usr/sbin/hald is already running                                                                                               [ !! ]
 * ERROR: hald failed to start


After this i tried to start/stop the daemon and here's the result:

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localhost linux # /etc/init.d/hald stop
 * WARNING: hald is already stopped
localhost linux # /etc/init.d/hald start
 * Starting Hardware Abstraction Layer daemon ...
 * start-stop-daemon: /usr/sbin/hald is already running                                                                                               [ !! ]
 * ERROR: hald failed to start


So i decided to use the status command and it seems like the /etc/init.d/hald is not running but the /usr/sbin/hald is. Now, i had never noticed or tried to find out if in a regular situatuion they are both running, but my guess is yes... So i decided to see what goin on:

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 # hald --daemon=no --verbose=yes
13:25:52.821 [I] hald.c:634: hal 0.5.10
13:25:52.822 [I] hald.c:699: Will not daemonize
13:25:52.822 [I] hald_dbus.c:5285: local server is listening at unix:abstract=/var/run/hald/dbus-9SAq0oBHw5,guid=22d1e465a4788393fd1da61a47a71260
13:25:52.822 [E] hald_dbus.c:5579: dbus_bus_get(): Failed to connect to socket /var/run/dbus/system_bus_socket: Connection refused


Now, i remeber updating dbus earlier on, is there something i'm supposed to do now to get things running again?

Thanks

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I've been tweaking my pc for a while now and i found out that the problem is definately related to the dbus, since i have problems with the avahi daemon aswell:

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Found user 'avahi' (UID 110) and group 'avahi' (GID 445).
Successfully dropped root privileges.
avahi-daemon 0.6.22 starting up.
dbus_bus_get_private(): Failed to connect to socket /var/run/dbus/system_bus_socket: Connection refused
WARNING: Failed to contact D-Bus daemon.


So i've been searching around in the sabayon forums and the gentoo forums/wiki but all i found was some people with similar problems but no solution Since i updated dbus i figure that there might be something wrong with it or maybe the installation didn't go well and i missed it since it was in the midlle of some 100 packages being updated. My sys-apps/dbus version is 1.1.4.

[watson540]

are you running a custom kernel?

i had a problem with dbus and hald because i left 'inotify' out of the kernel

[Tiago]

Actually i had to reconfigure kernel because in the middle of some updates i received an error about kernel not being configured so I ran the make oldconfig command just to configure kernel on top of the previous configuration. There were some new options but that wasn't a problem.
Anyway I had the nerve to restart my computer and that didn't bother me anymore, although every time i try to restart dbus , all the other daemons using it go completely nuts mainly avahi and hald, but as long as they work it's fine by me .